Apocalypse: After Being Reborn, I Stocked Up on All Supplies-Chapter 224 - Partial Truth
Chapter 224: Chapter 224 Partial Truth
Chapter 224: Chapter 224 Partial Truth
“Chu Hui, you!” Ding Dayong clenched his molars, wishing he could immediately land a heavy punch on Chu Hui beside him.
Unfortunately, his limbs were tightly bound by Jiang Yan.
Moreover, the temperature was so low that the urine he had scared out earlier had already frozen into ice.
He now didn’t even dare to move, fearing that a careless action would damage his eggs.
The thought of this filled Ding Dayong with despair and rage.
He hated the extreme cold, he hated the apocalypse, he hated the hypocrite Chu Hui beside him, he hated everything!
“Anger, is often the most impotent display of humans. Little girl, wouldn’t you agree I’m right?”
Chu Hui sneered, then looked at Jiang Yan with gentle eyes, “I forgot to ask, miss, what’s your honored surname?”
Jiang Yan ignored his attempt at friendliness, pulled over a stool to sit, and immediately lifted the electric saw in her hand, resting it on the other’s arm, the switch ready to engage:
“Regarding Flame Base, Xue Miaomiao, the laboratory, how much do you know?”
Shut out, and feeling the cold saw blade pressed tightly against him, Chu Hui, who was smugly confident just a second ago, turned pale:
“Little girl, all of this is top secret information, you’ll have to kill them first—”
“Whether I kill them or not is my decision, and has nothing to do with you,” Jiang Yan sneered with a laugh.
Thinking she could be easily manipulated as if she were a three-year-old?
With a snort from his nostrils, Chu Hui stubbornly said, “Then I regret that I cannot divulge any information!”
“Buzz—” The electric saw started.
The sound of breaking bones echoed.
“Ahh!”
Red liquid splattered against the wall and the floor.
“You! You’re a damn lunatic!” Chu Hui, with part of his arm severed, suddenly became furious.
Jiang Yan raised an eyebrow coldly, “I said, no prattling in front of me.”
Having said that, the saw blade, now smeared with red liquid, was placed against his neck.
Watching her fingers move towards the switch, Chu Hui, whose eyes brimmed with brutality and arrogance, caved in a second, “Wait, wait.”
The fresh scent of urine began to fill the room.
The temperature was very low; even curls of steam were clearly visible.
“I don’t want to repeat the question I asked earlier.”
The oppressive voice of the girl echoed in the room.
Chu Hui paused, enduring the severe pain in his arm, his eyes filled with a plea:
“I’ll tell everything, but I also hope that you will keep your earlier promise and spare my life.”
For a person with his special status, as long as he could survive, even if Flame Base wouldn’t keep him, there would certainly be another base that would.
And they would be eager to seize him.
“It depends on how you ‘fess up,” Jiang Yan said leisurely, sitting back down.
Chu Hui took a deep breath, thought for a few seconds, and began to narrate, “Let’s start with Flame Base. A crafty rabbit has three burrows, and Xue Miaomiao is no exception.
Initially, he was usually based in Hai City, next to Anming City. After the torrential rains ended, he moved to Xiangcheng, and then to Jin City. However, the first two can only be considered as branches of the base. Jin City here is the real headquarters…”
Jiang Yan listened carefully with her ears perked up, her brows unconsciously furrowing.
The information Chu Hui and the others provided could be roughly divided into several points:
1. The Flame Base in Jin City had started construction before the apocalypse. In the early stages, it was built in a manner similar to constructing large air-raid shelters as part of war readiness.
Only after the apocalypse did it officially claim to be repurposed as a base, and it has both a ground city and an Underground City.
2. The laboratories are divided into two main categories: one studying why natural disasters form and how to respond to them; the other studying how human genetics can rapidly mutate to adapt to extreme weather.
The laboratories at Flame Base belong to the second category.
At first, they used animals with the closest genetic similarity to humans, such as gorillas, lab mice, cats, dairy cows, etc., as test subjects to study survival in different extreme weather conditions.
Later, as high temperatures set in and the higher-ups began to panic, the test subjects used in the laboratories started to include humans.
As for the methodology, it most likely involved using certain technological means to enable species-specific evolution, which would otherwise take millions or even tens of millions of years to complete, to be accelerated to a matter of months or even days with the help of viruses with the shortest evolutionary cycles.
3. Xue Miaomiao is very mysterious.
It’s only known that he and his backing from Golden Shield Security, as well as other channels, made the most significant contributions in acquiring human test subjects in the early days of the apocalypse.
As for why he was appointed as the base leader, it remains unknown.
Regarding how much the official entities participated in the entire operation, Chu Hui was extremely secretive, only stating that he was a scientific researcher and was not privy to these matters.
4. Xiangcheng originally had the most abundant coal resources and was the best location to deal with the extreme cold weather.
But due to some issues with the storage of mutated viruses in the laboratory, which could even affect the survival of all humankind, a self-destruct system was activated.
5. Xue Qianmei did indeed bring back some people from Xiangcheng on a transport plane before the explosion.
But it was only known that the one who escaped from the laboratory was a university student surnamed Ye because someone in the base recognized him, saying he was a former classmate.
As for the others, who were using pseudonyms; their real names remained unknown.
*
An hour later.
Having interrogated all five people, Jiang Yan got up somewhat tiredly.
This fatigue stemmed more from the shock of uncovering some of the truth.
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“Big sister, we’ve all confessed everything, can you let us go now?” Ding Dayong mustered the courage to ask weakly.
Chu Hui echoed, “Yes, look, Brother Ding and the others and I have been quite cooperative. You should keep your promise and release us, right?”
At this moment, he had come to recognize the situation.
It was certain that he wouldn’t be able to return to Flame Base.
Although he would likely be valued if he went to other bases, the prerequisite was that he would survive to make it there.
Now, he had no choice but to rely on Ding Dayong and others.
They were all grasshoppers on the same rope now.
Even though he had offended a few people earlier,
he had observed along the way that they were all simple-minded, brawn-over-brains types.
As long as he could humble himself and beguile them…
The four of them looked at Jiang Yan with hope but saw her take out a roll of duct tape from her bag and, without another word, seal their mouths again.
“Sorry about this.”
In their incredulous gaze, an object resembling a large battery with a red countdown appeared, taken out by Jiang Yan.
An invisible force suspended the battery to the ceiling.
[00:59]
Drip—
Drip—
…
As the beeping started, the countdown decreased second by second.
Even those with no common sense had seen TV and movies and recognized in a second that it was a time bomb.
“Mmmmmm??!!!!!” Their fear widening their eyes, they started to kowtow to Jiang Yan.
Someone even wriggled like a maggot toward the wooden door.
Jiang Yan had already pushed open the wooden door and walked out.
“Bang!” The door was locked from the outside.
They indeed confessed thoroughly, much to Jiang Yan’s surprise.
However, even if they didn’t collude with Flame Base, Jiang Yan couldn’t let them live.
Secrets could only be kept forever when carried to the grave…
The blizzard continued outside.
The sky was also dark and heavy.
Jiang Yan put the electric saw back into Space, put on her Snow Goggles, and took out a snowmobile from Space.
“Thud!”
“Thud!”
The people who had managed to reach the wooden door started to desperately slam their bodies against it.
Jiang Yan glanced back coldly, started the vehicle, and quickly headed in the direction Brother Ding had indicated for the base.
[00:00]
“Boom!”
With a ground-shaking explosion, the wooden house that was blown to pieces was engulfed in flames, which were swiftly buried under the avalanching snow from the mountaintop.
